Jessica's relaxing trip to visit her friends Vaughan and Olga Buckley in picturesque San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, takes a turn when Vaughan is abducted for a large ransom and Jessica must put her own life on the line to find him.

Jessica's relaxing trip to visit her friends Vaughan and Olga Buckley in picturesque San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, takes a turn when Vaughan is abducted for a large ransom and Jessica must put her own life on the line to find him.

Jessica Fletcher is in a Florida retirement community for the funeral of a dear old friend whose heart gave out-only to discover that the woman's death from natural causes may have been artificially induced.

With the help of a feisty group of young-in-spirit retirees, Jessica must track down the clues and find out who prescribed the fatal treatment...